The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-14
LONDON'S MOB IN A RIOT.
ovERTWo HUNDRED CITIzENSAND
FORTY POLICEMEN INJURED.

Annroaches to Trafalgar Square
With Re-Enforcements of Cavalry
and Infantry Drawn Up in the Cen
tre-Fifty Arrests Made.
LONDON, Nov. 13.-The scene in Trafalgar
souare to-day has not been equalled since
1866 when people, asserting the right of
nublic meeting, destroyed the railing
around HYDE Park -Four thousand police
men took possession of the approaches to
Trafalgar square at an early hour. They
had been on the ground but short time
when various societies of Socialists, Radi-
Gals and Irish approached the square from
every direction. The paraders were headed
bv bands of music, and carried banners and
notices. The police attacked and dispersed
each group as it arrived near the square.
Fierce fights took place on the Strand,
Northumberland avenue, Whitehall, Pail
Mall and other adjacent streets.
THE LINES BROKEN ONCE
One of the societies succeeded in entering
the square. but was repulsed after bloody
fight. in which Commoner Graham was
seriously injured Mr.. Graham was subse-
uentlv arrested for attacking the police.
lt 4:30 o'clock the crowd in the vicinity
of the souare numbered 100000 and the
polce were powerless to thoroughly dis
nerse them Cavalry and infantry were
summoned to the assistance of the pohce,
but no charge was made, as the people of
their own accord began to disperse at dusk.
OVER 200 INJURED.
About POO citizens and forty policemen
we're injured. Fifty persons were arrested,
among them being the Socialist Burns.
Some of the injured were well enough to
leave the hospitals after treatment. One
patient was dreadfully burned with vitriol
squrted from q syringe. Another declares
that he was bayonetted Two policemen
were stabbed with knives. 1t was notice
able that the crowd, while hOoting the
police, cheered the cavalry and infantry
posted in the square ready for action IN case
The crowd broke the police line. If the
crowd had succeeded III breaking the line it
is believed that tue riot act would have
been read and the infantry would have been
ordered to fire.
THE PROCLAMATION POSTED BY NIGHT
The proclamation of Sir Charles Warren,
head of the London police, forbidding the
holding of g meeting i'll Trafalgar square
to-day, was placarded throughout London
last night At 8 o'clock this morning Ira
falgar square presented an animated APP
pearance, owing to the continual arrival of
bodies Of police, small drafts having been
made from every district in the metropolis.
Three hundred grenaders were sta
toned in the barracks in the rear
of the National armory. Police to
the number of 1900 formed a hollow
square four deep on the southern side for
the purpose OF protecting Trafalgar square.
Two thousand five hundred more were held
in reserve. Until l O'Clock there were no
signs of pl. -.s sSion. AT that hour groups,
mainly OF s;s~t t-seers or rOughs, began
to assemble il ~ vicinity OF the square,
but a squad of mounted police kept traffic
moving and dispe: ed each group as it
formed.
AN IMMENSE CROWD.
By 3 o'clock there was an immense con-
course of people packed on the steps of st.
Martins church and Morley's Hotel and on
the roofs of houses in adjacent streets. The
majority seemed to be respectable persons
attracted by curiosity. The remainder
were loafers of the worst class About 4
o'clock, Graham and Burns at the head of
about 400 men, made a determined attempt
to break the police lines and enter the
The police, however, beat them back
and captured both leaders. Graham
was bleeding freely from wound in his
head made by pOliceman's club. In the
meantime bodie of paraders had arrived by
every debouching avenue, but they We're
dispersed and compelled TO surrender their
flags and banners before arriving at the
square. Numbers crowded the omnibuses
and harangued the people from the knife
boards, while the vehicles slowly traversed
the front of the square and Charring Cross.
the crowd cheering wildly.
ARRIVAL OF THE CAVALRY
4 obaarc harol1aI fha
arrival of the cavalry force with Col.
Tolbat at its head from Whitehall, and
Magistrate Marsham to read the
riot act in case that such warning
should become necessary While the Guards
tIotted eight abreast around the square,
cheers went up, accompanied by shouts OF
brave Marsham we want free speech. We
are all true Englishmen, Irishmen and
Scotchmen. We only want our legal rights
as citizens of London A second circuit
Of the square by the Guards elected
opposition from mob of roughs
in the crowd who shouted: 'Britons shall
not be ruled by lead and bayonetSm Three
groans were given for the Home Secretary.
The guards patroled the square several
tunes and then turned into the adjacent
streets. They succeeded in awing the
roughs and in gr itly thinning out the
crowd. At ) o'clock the Grenadiers wheeled
with twenty rou I'd of ball cartridges in
their pouches. Thsy were accompanied by
an ambulance. They halted in front of the
National Gallery and opened into lines.
THE MOB IN A TRAP.
The mob was thus caught between the
lines of police and military, and the roughs
We're compelled TO run the gauntlet. Some
OF them showed disposition to maintain
their ground, but the soldiers brought tlelr
hayonents to the charge position, and the
sight of the cold steel quickly caused them
TO retreat. Soon after 81 o'clock
the police made series of violent
charges with their batons, in a de-
telmined effort to clear the whole
vicinity, many points of which had been
crowded all the afternoon. During one
cnarge the whole window of an electrical
shop fell with a CRASH. The crowd asserted
that the window was broken by the hoofs
OF some OF the policemen's horses. The
nolce, however, assert that bricks were
thrown at the window. LoaIers made Tor
The contents of the window, but the police
captured many articles and arrested the
thieves. By o'clock there was no fear of
further trouble. At $50 o'clock the whole
force Of the Life Guards again patrolled the
square, and finally the crowd dispersed COM
pletely.
ENBLEMS OF VICTORY.
Some excitement was caused at whitehall
oy the victorious police marching with
captured flags and banners. The mounted
police and Life Guards were now ordered in
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